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Falling in love, although it resulted in altered body chemistry and was therefore real, was a hormonally induced delusional state, according to him. I...more

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Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex

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Sex is like a drink, it's bad to start brooding about it too early in the day.

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Even sex was no longer what it had once been, though he was still as addicted to it as ever. He felt jerked around by his own dick, as if the rest of ...more

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How much misery . . . how much needless despair has been caused by a series of biological mismatches, a misalignment of the hormones and pheromones? R...more

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Nobody wanted to be sexless, but nobody wanted to be nothing but sex.

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Not that it isn't great to see you. But it's not so great for you. What'd you do wrong? Laugh at his dick?

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A bachelor, a studio, those were the names for that kind of apartment. Separate entrance it would say in the ads, and that meant you could have sex, u...more

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I remember Queen Victoria's advice to her daughter. Close your eyes and think of England.

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There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's something delightful about it, something naughty, secretiv...more

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Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprin...more

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There was old sex in the room and loneliness, and expectation, of something without a shape or name. I remember that yearning, and was never the same ...more

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Condoms seemed to her inherently wicked. But they were also inherently funny. They were like rubber gloves with only one finger, and every time she sa...more